Interview by Nun Cornelia (Rees)
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For example, when people ask me, “What do you have to say about the ideological leanings and impaired world-view of this or that ecclesiastical individual?” I always answer, “We receive those who are infirm in the faith without arguments about opinions. The opportunity to manifest our expression of brotherly love in Christ Our Saviour is so meaningful, that only after this can we cross spears in ideological discourse.” Sometimes it seems that the faultiness of a world-view can in no way be equaled to the individual himself, who has received the gift of the Holy Spirit in the bosom of Ecumenical Orthodoxy.
On March 22, 2008, a meeting of the Synod of Bishops was held at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY, chaired by His Eminence Archbishop Hilarion of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand.
His Holiness Alexey II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
It is with grief that I learned of the death of the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus. In a telephone conversation with His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany, we remembered the many years of labor of the venerable archpastor and the zealous servant of the Church of Christ.
President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation expressed his condolences over the death of His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, to His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, reports the government press service.
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It is symbolic that Vladyka Laurus died on the first Sunday of Great Lent, the feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. His spiritual and historic role in the life of the Church served exactly that—the triumph of Orthodoxy. The Prior of Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery, Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) talks with Russkaya Gazeta about Metropolitan Laurus’ role in the unification of the Churches.
